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 29th of the same month, he obtained the rank of Post-Captain; from which period we lose sight of him until the establishment of Sea Fencibles in the spring of 1798, when he was appointed to the command of the district between Harwich and Yarmouth, having his residence at South wold. Early in 1809, he succeeded the present Lientenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, as one of the Captains of that establishment; and continuing to hold that appointment, was passed over in the general promotion that took place on the 4th June, 1814.



 officer, a native of Ilfracombe, co. Devon, is descended from the ancient and respectable family of the Bowens, of Court House, in the seignory of Gower, in Glamorganshire.

About the year 1776, we find him commanding a merchant ship employed in the African, Canada, and Jamaica trade; on board which vessel, his gallant brother, the late Captain Richard Bowen, first went to sea. He subsequently entered the naval service as a Master, and served as such on board the Artois frigate, commanded by the late Admiral Macbride, in the battle between Sir Hyde Parker and Admiral Zoutman, Aug. 6, 1781.

Some time after this event, Mr. Bowen went into the Texel in a Dutch fishing boat, closely reconnoitred the 